Yes, I’m always ahead of everyone else when it comes to medical issues. Breast cancer, shingles, hip replacement, and more all before 50. And, to keep up with myself, now I have cataracts at age 50. Good times.
I noticed I was struggling with my vision recently, but thought it was because my eyes were watering. About 2 weeks ago, I realized the vision in my right eye was blurry, like there was a film over it. I had an MRI to rule out disease as a root cause. Luckily there is nothing in my brain. Yup, nothing there ear to ear! That explains some other things, but not the vision issue so off to the eye doctor I went.
I suspected a steroid induced cataract after my extensive medical studies and after a bunch of tests, cataracts in both eyes was confirmed by a real medical professional. I’m relieved as there is a fix!!! And the doctor says I’ll come out of it without thick glasses. Woot woot!!
First I need to see a retina specialist to see if there is anything they need to do to stabilize my retina as they’re thin. Then I’ll have a surgery for each eye sometime in the next month. I’m actually looking forward to it.
It really is always something in my world. These treatment side effects are the worst. At least this is fixable.